It's not a 'gift'

I am writing in response to the editorial on Tuesday. In this editorial The Star Press refers to the Indiana income tax credit refund as a "gift." It also statse that this "gift" will add up to "about $360 million the state won't be able to spend."

I think to take these positions, one has to have these beliefs: 1. That all money first belongs to the government, and what we are allowed to keep was not ours to begin with, but only what we are permitted to have. 2. That government knows better how to spend money than we do. I don't agree with these beliefs.

This refund is not a "gift." It is our money. The state of Indiana is not a government that gives away cash.

When government takes in more money than it actually needs, it is only right that they return the money back to its rightful owners: the taxpayers.

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It's not a 'gift'

CRAIG SELVEY Albany I am writing in response to the editorial on Tuesday. In this editorial The Star Press refers to the Indiana income tax credit refund as a 'gift.' It also statse that this 'gift'